MIDI Music but no sound effects

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Bryan
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MIDI Music but no sound effects

Post by Bryan »

I haven't tried to build this engine before so apologizes if I missed an easy step. I can get MIDI music to play by changing the sound options but I have no sound effects. The most common advice I found said to download zdoom and copy fmodex.dll to the same directory as gzdoom.exe

I haven't done anything crazy, I think I'm following the normal steps:

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git clone https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom.git
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cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015"
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Then I opened the project in Visual Studio and built in Release mode. Is this a configuration issue or am I missing something else?
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Re: MIDI Music but no sound effects

Post by Graf Zahl »

Yes, you actually missed something. For sound to work you need to properly set up at least one of the two sound backends, either FModEx or OpenAL.

Here's the setup instructions, it's all listed there: http://zdoom.org/wiki/Compile_ZDoom_on_Windows
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Re: MIDI Music but no sound effects

Post by Bryan »

Yes that was indeed it. Problem solved. Thanks for the help.
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